Improvement in combined labels and seals for locks



BROOKS.

Combined Labeland Sealsfo Lileks.

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WLTNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEf EDWARD J. BROOKS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED LABELS AND VSEALS FOR LOCKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,764, dated June 10, 1873 application filed December 27, 1672.

To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BROOKS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Combined Label and Seal for Locks, ot' which the following is a specification My improved seal is made in sheet form, of paper or other material, with an aperture to receive the hasp of the lock to be sealed, and with printed or other marks or characters on its face, so arranged that a punch may be used in connection with the said marks or characters to indicate the date on which the seal is used, as well as the point of shipment or destination of goods shipped, or any other desired particulars. The aperture is surrounded with metal, cloth, or other material to strengthen it.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 42, and 3 are front views of different seals, illustrating my invention. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line a: ar, illustrating the mode of applying the strengthening material.

The seal illustrated in Fig. l is specially adapted for sealin g railway freight-cars.

The double column marked A contains in units, tens, and hundreds, numberswhich, with the use of a punch, are employed to indicate the number of the station for which the goods are destined. The column may be headed by the name of a terminal or other principal station, as in the present illustration, for all stamps to be used in shipping freight from such principal stations. For transporting goods between way stations, two similar sets of numbered columns are used, headed by the words from l and to, as represented in Fig. 2. p

Fig. 3 is an illustration of a seal made on the same principle, to he used for mail purposes, and having the names ot' the otces of departure and destination printed upon it. For way mails numbers may be used on the "same principle as the numbers of the railway stations.

The columns B, for dates, `may be the same on al1 the seals, such columns consisting ot' Iigures for any desired number of years, iig-` ures from 1 to 12 for the month, and from l to 31 for the day of the month. The seals may also be marked with the initials N, S, E,

W, either ot' which being punched indicates that Athe transit is northward, southward, eastward, or westward, as the case may be. O represents the aperture to receive the shackle or liasp ot' a lock, or any other article to `be protected. D is the strengthening-rim, which J may be advantageously formed of a plate of metal with its central part cut diagonally and turned back upon the rim over the edge ofthe paper. Sufficient strengthening for most purposes may be obtained by cementing a re-enforce ot' cloth or other material ou the back of the seal.

The manner of using my improved seal, when made in either form, will be readily understood. The. punching shown in Fig. 1 indicateslthat the seal was applied on the 17th day ot' 12th month, (December,) 1872, to a car going west from Philadelphia to Station No. 146. In Fig. z the punching indicates, in a similar way,

that the car is going east from Station 87 to object to be secured and printed or otherwise marked with numbers or other charac`A ters to indicate, by the use of a punch, the

date of application and the destination or direction of transit of the property protected.

EDWARD J. BROOKS.

Witnesses:D

WM. H. RIBLET, MORTIMER J. ENNIS. 

